Strike Back

71
Metascore
2010-2020
8 seasons
Cinemax
Action & Adventure, Drama, Suspense
TV-MA

A high-octane, globe-spanning thriller with storylines ripped from today's headlines, Strike Back focuses on two members of a top-secret intelligence agency known as Section 20.

71
Metascore
2010-2020
8 seasons
Cinemax
Action & Adventure, Drama, Suspense
TV-MA

A high-octane, globe-spanning thriller with storylines ripped from today's headlines, Strike Back focuses on two members of a top-secret intelligence agency known as Section 20.

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Wed, Sep 28, 2022

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Thu, Aug 20, 2020

Cinemax Renews Strike Back for Seventh and Final Season

It's time (again) to pour one out for the action drama

Wed, Feb 27, 2019

Cinemax Renews Strike Back for Seventh and Final Season

Strike Back Should Focus on the Future, Not the Past

We love Scott and Stonebridge too, but the new team needs a chance to grow

Sat, Apr 7, 2018

Strike Back Should Focus on the Future, Not the Past

Strike Back Renewed for Season 6 on Cinemax

The action won't stop

Tue, Mar 27, 2018

Strike Back Renewed for Season 6 on Cinemax

Strike Back Might Live on As a Movie

Stapleton and Winchester will likely star

Fri, Oct 2, 2015

Strike Back's Final Season Delayed Due to Star's Off-Set Injury

Production on the final season of Cinemax's Strike Back has been delayed six months due to a serious injury suffered by star Sullivan Stapleton, Deadline.com reports. Stapleton, 36, was injured away from the set while...

Wed, Feb 26, 2014

Strike Back's Final Season Delayed Due to Star's Off-Set Injury

Weekend Review: Breaking Bad, Low Winter Sun, White Queen, Strike Back, Clear History

As if we needed more evidence that there's never a slow time of year for significant TV (except maybe Christmas week), here's a mid-August weekend with so many premieres you might think fall had come early — although the new fall season would be lucky to boast shows remotely this interesting. The greatest buzz, of course, surrounds the beginning of the end of AMC's darkly entertaining masterpiece Breaking Bad (Sunday, 9/8c), which resumes its climactic trajectory with the first of eight final episodes — and if Sunday's blistering hour is any indication of what's to come over the next two months, we're in for quite the wrenching ride. A ride that's teased by an opening flash-forward which suggests catastrophic consequences for the domestic life of Walter White (Bryan Cranston, astonishing as ever in his swings from mensch to menacing) — whose criminal alter ego is now in danger of being exposed by his brother-in-law/DEA agent Hank (Dean Norris, a world removed from the melodramatics of his new gig Under the Dome).

Fri, Aug 9, 2013

Weekend Review: Breaking Bad, Low Winter Sun, White Queen, Strike Back, Clear History

Ask Matt: Under the Dome and Summer TV, Burn Notice, True Blood, Emmy Noms and More

Send questions and comments to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter! Question: I, like many others, read the novel Under the Dome and was sorely disappointed with the ending. I read an article about changes that are coming to the TV version. I was glad about that and am now going to give it a try. But I also read that it may become a series instead of a 13-episode miniseries. Is that true? I'd much rather this be a miniseries as opposed to a series lasting multiple seasons. The story doesn't really lend itself well to playing out over several years. Do you know if it will continue past 13 episodes? — Beth

Mon, Jul 1, 2013

Ask Matt: Under the Dome and Summer TV, Burn Notice, True Blood, Emmy Noms and More

Weekend TV Review: Hunted, Hitchcock's Girl, Showtime Showstoppers and More

Remember the old X-Files mantra "Trust No One?" One of its producers surely does, and in creating the new Cinemax spy thriller Hunted, Frank Spotnitz makes it clear from the first scenes that you can't always trust your eyes, either. "At least...

Fri, Oct 19, 2012

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Matt's Guide to Weekend TV: Wallander, Dinosaurs on Doctor Who, and More

In the tradition of all great detectives, Swedish bundle-of-brooding Kurt Wallander can't escape crime no matter where he goes — and that includes the country home he is just moving into with his lady love as the first of three new Wallander movies kicks off a third season on Masterpiece Mystery! (Sunday, PBS, check tvguide.com listings).

Fri, Sep 7, 2012

Matt's Guide to Weekend TV: Wallander, Dinosaurs on Doctor Who, and More

Weekend TV in Review: Comings (Boss, Strike Back) and Goings (Political Animals)

Following, some thoughts on another very busy weekend of summer TV. (At this point, I'm almost looking forward to the fall season starting, so I can catch my breath.) CHI-TOWN CHICANERY: Corruption, mendacity, a thick smog of cynicism. Ain't we got fun? And so the audaciously downbeat political drama Boss returns to Starz (Friday, 9/8c), anchored and dominated yet again by Kelsey Grammer's tremendous performance as Chicago mayor (aka "boss" man) Tom Kane. A self-righteous bastard and unrepentant bully, this Machiavellian manipulator is notorious for "sacrificing that which is most precious for his political survival" (including sending his own daughter to prison and having his once-trusted turncoat adviser killed). Juggling more baggage than O'Hare during a blizzard, Kane is also beset by demons, manifesting as visions and hallucinations and ghosts, all symptoms of a debilitating brain disease — or maybe it's just good old guilt.

Fri, Aug 17, 2012

Weekend TV in Review: Comings (Boss, Strike Back) and Goings (Political Animals)

Strike Back Gets Back in Action!

The Strike Back team had just arrived in Mozambique to kick off shooting this season when they ran into a major problem: As the country faced an uprising by thousands of freedom fighters clutching real RPGs and AK-47s, the government wasn't so sure what to make of the show's crew. Mozambique officials...

Fri, Aug 17, 2012

First Look: Strike Back's Hot New Agent

Rhona Mitra is ready for action! The Boston Legal alum has joined forces with Cinemax's counterterrorism drama Strike Back for its second season, debuting in August. "This show is all the things that excite me," says the actress. "I find it...

Wed, May 30, 2012

Ask Matt: X Factor, Smash, Homeland, Boardwalk, Dexter and More!

Happy 2012! This week, we take care of some unfinished business from the first half of the TV season while looking ahead to some midseason hopefuls. Keep sending your questions and opinions to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter!

Tue, Jan 3, 2012

Ask Matt: X Factor, Smash, Homeland, Boardwalk, Dexter and More!

Exclusive Clip: Action Heats Up on Strike Back

As the first season of Cinemax's testosterone-filled original series Strike Back winds down, the action is just heating up. Yesterday, the premium cable channel announced the show will return in 2012 for a second season, and today we bring you an exclusive clip from ...

Fri, Oct 7, 2011

Exclusive Clip: Action Heats Up on Strike Back